St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-26


of mind, q change of life direction. That is
, exactly what repentance means. What does
conversion mean? God don't convert people,
but regenerates them. Conversion-what
does con mean? All together. What does
verto mean? To turn. Now. just listen here.
/ walk along and verto to the right turn to
the right. Verto, | turn to the left and walk
along here and / con yerto and turn so.
Now, old fellow, the biggest sinner in the
house, you re just as much OH the road TO
conversion by turning around as any saint
in the house, and any saint here if you want
to go TO hell. just tutn around and you'll go
there. George Smith was preaching one
night on repentance and trying to explain
things, and old Uncle John Knight was sitting
away back listening, and finally he jumped
up and said, 'hold on, listen, and then he got
up and hobbed Off saying. II am going to
Fight still and turned round and started back,
saving, Il am going to heaven. ''Now," he
says, George, l have told the people what
repentance is and now go on with your SER
mon." This is what repentance means. God
himself can never save you until you turn
your back on sin and resolve to lead
new life-feeling or no feeling. If we con-
fess our sins, He is willing to forgive us.
How faithful He is to His word and just TO
His children. Brother. after l was pardoned
L used to be very much troubled at times. I
said. when get to heaven never can hold
my head up there because | have been so
wicked and bad but / was reading one day
and / read this: ~ have not only pal doned
your transgreSsions, but will move them as
far away as the East is from the West" and
| said, thank God. Reading along another
day, He said He would not only separate my
sins, but He says, ~ will blot them out of
My remembrance and remember them no
more forever, and L said, thank God, what
gracious Father. The pastor of
church in Louisville. J. c. Morris,
,INl,
one night in the meeting there he got up and
confessed how he had gambled and fought,
and when we had dismissed the meeting his
good old mother came up and said: Jimmy,
what made you say you was wicked and bad.
JIMMY For then, you see, the precious old
mother had done forgotten all about her boys
meannesS, and charged him with falsehood
when he told how mean he had been, and
said glory be to Goo. When ! get to heaven he
HAS BLOTTED IT ALL OUT
OF his book of remembrance. Now, listen.
This is promise, brother. If We confess our
sins he is faithful ard just 10 forgive you.
Gods time is now, row, now, now! Now,
brother, is Gods time. In large cattle
farm, where the cattle walked down
to the ponds, they kept the water
dirty, and the farmers have walked
in those ponds and put planks all over the
surface of the water and at the edge of the
platform put trough. Now, if the cattle get
to the trough without getting up on the plat
form, and an old steer should rear up and
look down into the trough, he'd say: "Boys,
there's no use in going around Ito the
trough; it's empty" But an old thirsty oxen
walks up, ana the pressure Of his weight
forces the water up into the trough.
Now, Mr.. Tyndall and Darwin and Huxley
have climbed up some OF the way and say,
boys, there 'aint any water in that trough"
but as sinner walked up on the platform
of Gods promise and my weight forced tho
wafer I drank until
was laved in Its waters, and now [ thank
God for the water of life. Come up, brother,
come up; and as we walk up the more weight
you put on it, the more water in the trough.
God help US tonight on better life. | just
say this to you now in conclusion. There is
chance for every man who sits under my
voice tonight. Will you take that chance?
II my county were called upon some years ago
10 nominate a man that was sure to be
damned, they would have nominated me
he is gone sure. L tore out of the
arms of a precious wife, from the
innocence of precious little ones, from
my fathers tears and good advice and ran
madly downward and hellward for years and
years; but boys, listen. Fourteen years ago
last August gave my dying father my hand
and promised to meet him in the good world,
and | stand here tonight monument of the
fact that the grace Of God can save the
biggest sinner in Georgia. He can here In
Minneapolis, too. Glory be to God. Make
your wife, make your children. make your
neighbors think more of you; and, above all,
it will make you think of yourself as an inn
mortal mar eught to think. God help us to
determine upon better life. And now how,
many members of churches here will
stand up-and it wouldn't hurt .us
preachers, let us lead the way to-night-let
all that intend to say. "Ill lead better life
in the sight of God and man. rise up. aud if
you don't intend to live any better sit still.
Every man that says in this house II want to
lead better life and cease to do evil and
learn to do well stand up with us. Thank
God hundreds Of them stand up. Are there
you want to be better man? Stand up; {;
stand up. God help you to take your stand
for heaven tonight.